AKO FOUNDATION — grant history

Registered charity 1151815 · filings on the Charity Commission register · its own accounts analysis · funder finder · deadlines · watch this funder · check a grantee list

Write-backs & cancellations (all years shown): 4 entries, −£828k. These are listed separately below and are not netted off the grant totals or counted as grants.

reconciliation not assessedextracted from its FY2025 accounts

FY2022: 1 grant totalling £380k is listed but excluded from totals: unverified read (the amount is not printed in the accounts text).

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

• How to apply: The Foundation adopts a proactive approach to grant-making; accordingly, it does not seek applications for grants, and does not make grants in response to unsolicited applications.

Summarised from www.akofoundation.org on 17/08/2026. Always check the funder’s site before applying.

Credited as a funder by

Charities that name this funder on their own websites (website claims, separate from the accounts-extracted grants below).

• THE ARTS EMERGENCY SERVICE “Trust and Foundations AKO Foundation”
• THE WIGMORE HALL TRUST “Under 35s tickets are supported by The AKO Foundation”
• EDUCATION & EMPLOYERS TASKFORCE “With particular thanks to AKO Foundation, Education and Skills Funding Agency, Commercial Education Trust, JP Morgan, Th”
• DOORSTEP “We give our most sincere thanks to the following organisations who either make financial grants, donate gifts in kind or”
• Bite Back 2030 “AKO foundation Supporting education and the arts to improve lives and promote cultural engagement.”
• NOW TEACH “Our donors AKO Foundation”

What this funder supports

Based on the register classifications and operating areas of the grant recipients we could match to the charity register (a subset of all grantees).

What changed: FY2024 → FY2025

Grantees that appear, disappear or move by 50%+ between the two most recent filings that have counted grants (unverified reads are left out, so a filing whose grants are all unverified is skipped). A grantee “dropped” may simply have received a multi-year grant earlier.

Grants made, per its accounts filings

Download this grant history as CSV (open data, provenance and licence noted in the file).

Write-backs & cancellations

4 entries totalling −£828k in this funder’s accounts are negative amounts, such as the write-back of an accrued grant or a cancelled grant. They are shown here on their own and are not netted off the grants total or counted as grants above. They are in the CSV with amount_note “write_back”.

About this data

This grant list is extracted by automated reading of the grant-maker’s own accounts PDFs as filed with the Charity Commission, and cross-checked against the accounts’ stated grant totals. Recipients are linked to register entries only on an exact charity-number or unambiguous exact-name match. If you represent this funder or a recipient and want a correction, email [email protected].

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the filed accounts. They stay in the list and the CSV (read_status column) but are left out of the totals, counts and recipient tallies this site computes.